Post 12/6: AD White weighs in on the expressive policy
Andrew Dickson White has weighed in on the Cornell Committee on Expressive Activity Draft Report Policy. Although hardly known as a man of principle (he was zealously involved in Indigenous dispossession), even he is perturbed by the administration’s silence and silencing in the face of an existential crisis. It is remarkable for one so long dead to send a message, but send a message he does: “The science is clear. Don’t look away. Don’t muzzle protesters. Declare a Climate Emergency.”
Newsletter #11: Thanksgiving and Mourning
This is a week of grieving and thanksgiving. Last Thanksgiving season, we asked Robin Wall Kimmerer: what teachings are needed now for universities like Cornell? She pointed us to the principles of the Honorable Harvest. This Thanksgiving, we invite you to envision what an Honorable Harvest might look like in higher education. It’s an open call: will you help us experimentally apply these Indigenous principles to our shared predicament?
Cornell on Fire Post 11/6: On Love and Rage
Yesterday, half the people of the US voted for Trump. For many of us, the election results feel like hearing that someone (or everyone) we love is dying. But the day before the election, insights from a campus panel on “Indigenous Perspectives in Education” shed light on how to contain our rage and engage with multiple ways of knowing.
Michael Charles speaks to Reclaim Earth Day
With gratitude, we reprint the opening address for Reclaim Earth Day by Cornell Professor Michael Charles, a Diné (Navajo) scholar and Provost’s New Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in Biological and Environmental Engineering.
May we walk in beauty.